Despite their ongoing suffering, frustration and oppression due to current security and living conditions, which have not improved as quickly as we had hoped, the people of Iraq have finally had a taste of the freedom that had been denied them for so many decades.
A pesar del sufrimiento, la frustración y la angustia resultantes de las actuales condiciones de seguridad y de vida, que no han mejorado tan rápido como habíamos esperado, el pueblo del Iraq ha conocido, por fin, la libertad que por tantos decenios le fue negada.